Following the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff likened his team's race weekend to being punched multiple times in the face. He said he was "angry" that decisions by the FIA stewards had consistently swung against his team and went on to say that, from his perspective, the time for "diplomacy has ended".
Given the strength of his words, it was perhaps no surprise that Mercedes wrote to the FIA on Tuesday saying it had requested a review of one of the more controversial incidents in the race. Wolff had described the stewards' decision not to investigate the near collision between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton on lap 48 as "the tip of the iceberg" and "laughable".